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[quote name="phunter308" post="1419481" timestamp="1374022408"] Well it took me awhile but I can finally talk. Some of you know that I am Brock Pryors dad and it I got the shock of my life this year. Brock received several offers to play football from full rides to partials. The family was so excited as he had put in alot of work and we had taken him all over to camps,combines and visits. He decided on some schools and aalll was  good. Then [b]bam[/b] he comes to me and says dad I don't want to play football anymore. I think my heart stopped. He continued to explain that he loved playing for Nederland and Coach Neumann but he wanted to be able to walk and think when he was my age. Brock said I just want to go to college get a degree and go to work for one of the refineries. I sat and listened in disbelief. After talking to several people and talking it over and over and over with Brock, I finally accepted it. I am proud that he came to me face to face and was man enough to stand up for what he wants. He has made us proud . So it is good to be back. [/quote] This was without a doubt a very grown up decision to be made, especially by an 18 year old kid.  I think that the parents should be very proud and that they did a good job from what I can see.  Parents should always be proud of their kids, especially when it shows a reflection of the kids raising. Having said that...  I also think that this is an absolute travesty.  I think that a big problem that I see in this part of the state is the fact that talented kids end up ''staying home''.  For whatever reason.  There is one window in a person's life when they will get this kind of opportunity.  Pass that up... and regret is what you'll get for the rest of your life. I played 4 years of college ball and it was the greatest experience of my life to date (other than my children and my wife).  I can't even imagine what I would've felt like now had I not gone through that.  Yeah I had no life, had 3 hour practices 5 and 6 days a week, and went through absolute hell... but I have 2 championship rings, lifetime friends, and an experience that you cant buy to show for it. 4 years out of a lifetime is all you get.  Those refineries will be there whether you are 18 or 28.

[quote name="Craig S" post="1413773" timestamp="1371483512"] I just looked up some numbers. less than 3% of HS athletes play at the college level...and less than .25% go pro....a terrible investment by any other standard. [/quote] Well if that's what we're going to base this argument on... I just looked up some numbers too.  Only 23% of jobs in the country actually require a college degree.  Want to talk about terrible investments?..  What is the percentage of kids that will go pro in History or English Language Arts?  What about the number of kids that will be a "professional" using Algebra?  I mean if we're going to discuss investing in stuff, then we need to get rid of sports altogether (because there is only a .25% of actually making money in sports).  We need to take 1 out of every 4 students and put them through college readiness classes, and take the other 3 and put them through vocational and job skills classes.  That will also save us some money that we waste on core teachers...since they won't go pro. Also, how much money is being wasted on all these tests?  Lets get rid of all of it.  I mean, since it has no bearing on getting into college.  All you have to do is make good grades at a JC then transfer.  Come to think of it....we need to just make a list of all these wasted investments and petition to the state to get it taken care of.

[quote name="Aces_Full" post="1412350" timestamp="1370886462"] Let's see.  Lumberton was one game from making the playoffs this year (prob much better than most predicted), and the coach gets fired?  He has also done a good job building the under levels of the basketball program.  Coach Wueller has put them in contention to be playoff contenders for the foreseeable future, and he is[b] replaced by a girl's coach with no experience on the boy's side?  Sounds like a good 'ole boy network hire to me.[/b]  I hope the AD will hold himself to the same standard that he has Coach Wueller.  [/quote] 2 things... 1st... Josh Mitchell was the assistant boys coach at Hardin the 1st couple of years Haynes was there.  Assistant to a team that would have no doubt beaten Lumberton in basketball...  They split with both Kountze and EC who ended up in regional tourney.  2nd... ALL athletic directors hire people that have worked under them before.  They're familiar with what the A.D. wants.  It's not "good ' ole boy".. it's just how things are done.

Anderson kid from Hardin.  51 pts vs. Anahuac. 10 3's